Why You Need to Use Toner

Why is toner important and why do you need to use it? Let me break it down for you. When you wash your face with cleanser, it cleans your face but it also strips your skin’s natural oils. Toning helps balance your skin’s pH levels (your skin’s acidity & alkalinity levels). It can also help reduce your pore size, refresh your skin, and prep your skin for the other skincare products. Doesn’t that sound good? It’s such a simple step in your skincare routine, but it can be so beneficial.

• Balances out your skin’s natural pH levels
• Reduces your pore size
• Refreshes your skin
• Preps your skin for other skincare products

When Do You Apply Toner?

There are a lot of steps in a good skincare routine so it can get a little confusing knowing what order everything should go. Here are the steps to apply your skincare products:

• Cleanse
• Exfoliate (1-3x a week)
• Tone
• Serum
• Eye cream
• Moisturizer

It might be time to spring clean your skincare routine and commit to taking better care of your skin!

How to Use Toner

The first step in your skincare routine should always be cleansing. Once your face is nice and clean, you use toner. There are a few ways you can apply toner:

• Spray your face directly
• Spray your hands and then pat the toner onto your face
• Spray a cotton pad and then wipe the cotton pad on your face

It doesn’t really matter which way you do it, it’s a matter of preference. When you use a cotton pad to apply your toner, it can act as an additional cleanse. To do this, simply spray the cotton pad (I prefer to use reusable cotton rounds) with a few squirts of toner and then wipe your entire face and neck with the pad. Then take a look at that cotton pad. It will have any dirt, product, or oil residue that was missed from the first cleanse. If your face wasn’t clean before, it will definitely be now! But if you already do a first and second cleanse in your skincare routine, the cotton pad method isn’t as necessary. 

What is the Best Face Toner?

What is the best face toner?? When picking the best face toner to use, you want to make sure you use one that is gentle for your skin and works well for the type of skin that you have. I prefer to use skincare that truly heals and helps my skin shine! Here are some great options:  

• F11 Activating Facial Toner
• F67 Corrective Facial Tonic
• Seint Toner
• Rose Water or Thayers Witch Hazel– If you have sensitive skin, then either of these options are great for you. They are very gentle and natural.

Invest in Good Skincare

If you want to have healthy, happy, and glowy skin, it’s important to invest in good skincare products! There are so many options out there to choose from but which ones are best for you? If you’re not sure what skincare products are best for you, take the quick skin quiz! 

My very favorite skincare is Oliveda. Learn more about how amazing waterless skincare products are for your skin!

Toning takes just a few seconds in your skincare routine and has great benefits. Why wouldn’t you want to add it to your skincare process? Now go out there and add it to your routine =)

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About the Author

JoEllen is a licensed aesthetician, certified makeup artist, and certified John Maxwell coach, speaker, and trainer. She works with women helping them look and feel confident. She loves teaching women simple beauty techniques so they can feel empowered to try it at home. Her motto is that when you look and feel good, you do good!

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Basic Skin Care Every Woman Should Be Doing

Skin care shouldn’t be complicated. We live in a world that likes to over complicate things. There are tons of ways to do something, elaborate ways to doll things up, and bigger and better ideas to make something that is simple, complex. But that doesn’t have to be the case with skin care. Our skin is important and we need to take good care of it. But we don’t have to stress about the process. Let’s make it easy. Let’s make is simple. Here is what I think is basic skin care every woman should be doing to take good care of your skin.

Cleanse

You absolutely must, must, must cleanse your face every night! Do not go a night without washing your face with cleanser. You have just spent the day with makeup on your face and sweat, dirt, dust, and oil have all accumulated on its surface. See what I mean?! You do not want to sleep with that grim on your skin!

Simply take a cleanser and a microfiber cloth and wash your face with warm water. Splash your face with water and squirt some cleanser into the palm of your hand and gently rub the product into your skin in circular motions. You are removing all of that buildup from the day. Remember to focus on areas that will harbor more dirt like around your nose and on your chin.

Next, take a microfiber cloth and wipe off the cleanser. By using a microfiber cloth, you are ensuring that the dirt and grim is really off. The cloth acts as an extra grabber for removing all that buildup.

Exfoliate

This step does not have to be done daily, but only once or a few times a week, depending on the sensitivity of your skin. But it is still an important step that shouldn’t be missed! Exfoliating helps slough off the dead skin cells and product buildup. Have you ever noticed that your skin has some unwanted texture to it? Exfoliating will help smooth that surface and get it feeling oh so good! You can make a simple exfoliator at home or buy a great one. Either way, do it!

Tone

Toning is a step that is often neglected. Why do you have to tone?? Toning helps restore your skin’s natural pH level, reduces redness, minimizes your pore size, and refreshes your skin. Yes please! You can either squirt your face and let it air dry or you can squirt a cotton pad with the solution. Then take the cotton pad and rub it on your face. This is a great way to help remove any product that you may have missed during your cleansing.

Moisturize

This is the last step! Moisturize! Just like your body needs water to drink to stay hydrated, your skin needs moisturizer to stay hydrated too. Even if you have oily skin, do not skip this step! If you fail to moisturize, then your sebaceous glands will overcompensate and produce more oil. And you don’t want that. You want a youthful glow and moisturizing will help your skin stay that way.

And that’s it! With those simple steps (cleanse, exfoliate, tone, and moisturize) you are on your way to taking good care of your skin! Skin care shouldn’t be complicated. And with this basic skin care routine you can master good skin care habits!

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